RS-X Titles Decided at Takapuna

by Jodie Perkins. Yachting on 31 Jan 2007 The RS:X wind surfing Open and NZ National Championships has just concluded after four days of racing in Takapuna, North Shore, Auckland. The regatta attracted some top international competition in both the women’s and men’s events.

Tom Ashley came out on top in the Men’s with an overall win giving him the Open and New Zealand national championship titles for 2007. Ashley, representing Takapuna Boating Club had a strong and consistent regatta, with four wins and three 2nd places on home waters to seal the title, over Maksym Oberemko (UKR) in second, and Jon-Paul Tobin (NZL) in third.

'It’s been really great. We had some light winds during the regatta, which I’ve been targeting my training towards,' says Ashley. 'To sail well in the light breeze was the main positive that I’ve taken out of this regatta.'

Top international wind surfers have come to New Zealand for this event and the up-coming ISAF Grade 1 Sail Auckland regatta, as part of the down-under circuit.

'We’ve had a really good fleet,' says Ashley. 'Maksym Oberemko has an ISAF ranking of number two, and he was 6th at the Worlds last year. He always sails well, and he sailed well here in the light. It was great to have him and the other internationals here.'

Alessandra Sensini, current World Champ and three time Olympic medallist from Italy beat our own Olympic legend Barbara Kendall in the women’s event. Sensini was strong with five wins from ten races, and Kendall was delighted to have the tough competition to line up against.

'To sail against Alessandra has shown me where I’ve got to get to beat the current World Champ,' says Kendall. 'I made a couple of mistakes and have identified a couple of weaknesses, so the tough competition has been really useful for me. It’s given me some things to go away and improve on.'

While Sensini wins the Open Women’s title, Kendall takes the New Zealand national champion title after finishing in second place, and the highest placed kiwi. Olga Maslivets of the Ukraine was third.

'It has been a fantastic regatta with a real variety of conditions. We’ve had from the really, really light right through to extremely windy today, so it’s been a very fair regatta because of that,' says Kendall.

'The quality of sailors here was awesome, it’s just been fantastic. The international girls know that we’ve got a good group of girls here who sail and race consistently. Some of the kiwi girls are better in the light, and some are better in the heavy winds, so they know they’re going to get good competition whatever the conditions.'

Sail Auckland starts ten days from now, and the internationals are sticking around to line up again, making it the strongest wind surfing fleet New Zealand has seen in a while. Another six international board sailors from Italy, France and Bulgaria are expected in Auckland for the ISAF Grade 1 Sail Auckland regatta which will be sailed off Kohimarama Yacht Club.

2007 RS:X Windsurfing National Championships-Womens

TAKAPUNA BOATING CLUB

FINAL RESULTS

Overall

Sailed:10, Discards:1, To count:9, Entries:12, Scoring system:My scoring system

Rank	Age	Nat	SailNo	Helm	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	Total	Nett
1st	27	ITA	25	Alessandra Sensini	Genova YCI	(9)	4	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	24	15
2nd	38	NZL	15	Barbara Kendall	Gulf Harbour YC	7	1	2	3	4	2	1	3	(13 OCS)	5	41	28
3rd	28	UKR	9	Olga Maslivets	Transbunker	5	5	3	(8)	2	5	3	4	1	1	37	29
4th	24	AUS	911	Allison Shreeve	Stormriders	1	3	(10)	2	5	4	7	6	3	6	47	37
5th	20	NZL	7	Hayley Thom	Takapuna BC	(10)	9	8	7	3	3	4	10	4	4	62	52
6th	18	NZL	48	Kate Ellingham	Takapuna BC	4	2	5	4	6	9	9	5	(13 OCS)	9	66	53
7th	18	ISR	10	Maayan Davidovich	Hapoel Telaviv	2	8	7	5	9	8	6	2	(13 OCS)	7	67	54
8th	18	GER	77	Wiebke Snadnick	NRV	3	7	9	10	7	7	8	8	(13 OCS)	3	75	62
9th	19	NZL	3	Steffanie Williams	Kohimarama	6	(12)	6	6	8	6	10	7	7	8	76	64
10th	17	NZL	102	Justina Sellers	Takapuna BC	8	6	4	9	10	10	5	9	6	(13 DNS)	80	67
11th	16	NZL	110	Jasmine Lynch	Kohimarama YC	11	11	11	11	12	(13 DNF)	11	12	5	13 DNF	110	97
12th	17	NZL	123	Hannah Linkhorn	Kohimarama	12	10	12	12	11	(13 DNF)	13 DNF	11	8	13 DNS	115	102

Scoring codes used

Code	Description
DNF	Started but did not finish
DNS	Came to the start area but did not start
OCS	On course side at start or broke rule 30.1

2007 RS:X Windsurfing National Championships-Mens

TAKAPUNA BOATING CLUB

FINAL RESULTS

Overall

Sailed:10, Discards:1, To count:9, Entries:19, Scoring system:My scoring system

Rank	Age	Nat	SailNo	Helm	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	Total	Nett
1st	22	NZL	181	Tom Ashley	Takapuna BC	2	1	1	3	2	1	(4)	2	1	4	21	17
2nd	29	UKR	19	Maksym Oberemko		1	(6)	3	2	3	3	2	1	2	2	25	19
3rd	29	NZL	151	Jon-Paul Tobin	Takapuna BC	3	3	2	1	1	2	(5)	3	4	1	25	20
4th	21	KOR	62	Byung Gun Lee	Soeul YC	(10)	2	5	8	5	8	8	4	3	8	61	51
5th	21	NZL	11	Michael Lichtwark	Takapuna BC	4	13	8	5	10	7	3	9	(15)	5	79	64
6th	25	AUS	171	Michael Lancey	MPSC	6	4	12	7	8	9	6	7	(16)	11	86	70
7th	19	NZL	20	Chris Blake	Glendowie	7	9	7	12	4	(13)	13	5	8	10	88	75
8th	28	UKR	2	Dmytro Davydenko		11	(20 DNF)	13	14	7	4	1	14	14	3	101	81
9th	18	NZL	1111	Scott Davies	Kohimarama	12	7	6	4	12	11	(15)	6	9	15	97	82
10th	20	RUS	17	Anton Shelikhov	8 Nat Navy YC	13	8	16	(20 OCS)	6	5	11	13	5	9	106	86
11th	22	NZL	12	Mike Kilduff	Marsden Y & BC	8	10	(15)	9	13	12	12	11	6	7	103	88
12th	20	NZL	131	Antonio Cozzolino	Takapuna BC	16	(20 DNF)	11	13	9	6	10	12	10	6	113	93
13th	19	NZL	82	Nick Lichtwark	Milford CC	(15)	15	9	11	14	10	9	10	11	12	116	101
14th	18	NZL	111	Sam Lichtwark	Takapuna BC	14	12	10	10	11	14	(16)	8	12	13	120	104
15th	20	ISR	11	Shakiar Zubari	Aooel Eilat SC	5	5	4	6	(20 DNF)	20 DNS	7	20 DNC	20 DNC	20 DNC	127	107
16th	17	NZL	22	Richard Ellis	Kohimarama	9	11	17	16	16	15	(18)	15	13	14	144	126
17th	18	NZL	70	Dean Thompson	Kohimarama	17	16	14	17	17	(20 DNF)	17	16	7	20 DNF	161	141
18th	18	NZL	60	Mike Adams	Kohimarama	18	14	18	15	15	16	14	17	17	(20 DNC)	164	144
19th	15	NZL	37	Josh Nixon	Takapuna BC	(20 DNF)	20 DNC	20 DNC	20 DNC	20 DNC	20 DNC	20 DNC	20 DNC	20 DNC	20 DNC	200	180

Scoring codes used

Code	Description
DNC	Did not come to the starting area
DNF	Started but did not finish
DNS	Came to the start area but did not start
OCS	On course side at start or broke rule 30.1